[Vimcdoc-translate] Re: help with iconv

[Alecs K. <al...@pe...>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:31:40PM +0000, Wenzhi Liang wrote:
> wandys,  I remember we had this problem before and you fixed it. If you
> are still around, can you take a look at this?

The problem i 'fixed' falls in the case 2 & 3 as Willis stated. (welcome
aboard. huge job you did. thanks). 

There's no easy and elegant fix for case 1.  It may be not very polite
to have people's names misspelled as Thunder said in another mail.

> There is a work around for this: add 'enc=utf-8' to the status line.

This doesnt affect utf-8 users since they already set to use utf8 in the
first place.  And this does no good for a regular enc-cn user since s/he
normally cannot view utf-8 in his/her enc-cn environment (ie. in a
enc-cn locale'd terminal).


So there are several options for us:

1) We dont care about euc-cn any more.  utf-8 only, simple and clear.

2) We care about euc-cn by sacrificing utf-8 quality (change/remove
   questionable chars).

3) With utf-8 versions being good and untouched, we start maintaining
   and providing separate euc-cn versions (iconv -c).

4) Patch Vim to make it act like iconv -c when it's doing conversion.

5) ???


Nooooone is perfect.

-- 
Alecs King